Class-register.



N. 803,360. PATENTED 0GT.81, 1905. J. S. PRICE.

GLASS REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.9,1904.

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ATTORNEYS JULIUSl SIDNEY PRICE, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

CLASS-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Application iled March 9, 1904. Serial No. 197,301.

as a permanent class record or memoranduml for Sunday-schools or otherclasses or societies of a similar nature. The book is composed of twopartsnamely, cards or leaves havinga certain degree of rigidity and acover or protector for the same, which is constructed in U form and towhich the leaves are pivotedv in such manner that they may be foldedwithin it. I have sought to combine maximum compactness with perfectsecurity and protection for the leaves and the matter which may beinscribed thereon, as well as ready access to and manipulation of thecards.

The details` of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts areas hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which I Figure l is a perspective view of my improved class-register,the leaves being shown turned out of the protecting case or cover. Fig.2 is a plan view of the opposite side of the register, the leaves beingshown extended. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of theregister.

In the several igures, A indicates the U- shaped cover, and B theleaves, which are pivoted to the same. As shown, the pivot a is locatednear the open end of the U-shaped cover, and the leaves are made of suchlength and width that when folded within the cover they are flushtherewith at the outer end and on both sides. The cover is made offlexible materialsuch as sillicate cardboard, celluloid, aluminium, orother light material-and preferably such as permits pencil-marks to beerased therefrom.

As shown in Fig. l, one side of the cover A is inscribed with the wordsClass No, Department, and 'Ieacher, these different designations beingarranged in spaces which are separated from each other by lines. Theopposite side of the cover (see Fig. 2) is ruled in lines at rightangles to each other, and the several transverse divisions are indicatedby the following heads: Scholars Enrolled, New Scholars, ScholarsPresent, Visitors Present, Number Bibles, "Collection, while thelongitudinal spaces have the Yfollowing heads: 1st Sunday, 2d Sunday, 3dSunday, 4th Sunday, th'

Sunday.

The form shown in Fig. l when filled out shows a-t a glance to whatclass, department, or teacher the register belongs without reference toinside. The opposite side of cover (shown in Fig. 2) is for receivingthe record of the entire class as a whole each Sunday of any month andis so arranged as to be suitable for any month in any year, and being onthe outer cover the total class-record can be had at a glance, so thatthe general information of all classes can be readily compiled. All theleaves B are inscribed on both sides in the same manner. Thus there arethree longitudinal divisions l, 2, and 2. The central division or spacel is intended for the name of the pupil and the street or locality wherehe resides, and the words Name and LStreet are arranged accordingly.Each of the longitudinal spaces 2 is divided by transverse lines, so asto form twelve divisions corresponding to the twelve months of the year.In the center of each division is printed the name of a month, thesebeing arranged serz'atz'm or in the natural order-as, "Jan., "Feb., Mam&c. One of the divisions 2 contains the abbreviations indicating thelast six months of the year, and the second division 2 has theabbreviations indicating the lastsix months of the year. In each of themonth-divisions, in which the name of a month is indicated, are alsoplaced the numerals l 2 3 I 5, whlch have reference to the Sundays thatoccur or may be in any single month.

It will be seen that a record of the scholars as a whole classis kept onthe back of the cover, which is illustrated in Fig. 2, and that on eachside of each of the leaves Bin the space l is written the name of one ofthe scholars or pupils, together with his address. Thus on said cards orleaves is kept the individual record of each scholar, the record of anabsent scholar being designated or noted, for instance, by crossing thenumeral representing the Sunday in the month that such scholar isabsent. Any other information concerning each individual scholar of theclass for any Sunday may be shown in a similar way by signs or initialsmarked on the numerals representing the Sunday on which information isdesired to be made or recorded-as, for instance, A, (for absent,) 13,(brought Bible,) 0, (a collection,) E, (entered class,) &c. Thereforethe cards or leaves are de- ICO IOS

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signed for the names and addresses and for recording the individualrecord of each scholar, while the cover holding the cards is arranged toreceive the combined or collective report of the class as a Whole foreach Sunday of the month, the records of the individuals on the leaveswithin case being for the information of the teacher, and theconsolidated record of the class on back of cover is primarily for thesecretary of the school for the compilation of his general record of allclasses. Thus a means is provided for a complete record of theindividual scholar and also for the whole class collectively. Thus thiscentral division l has special reference to the portion of the record ofregister which is inscribed on the cover, in that the record on cover iscompiled from the individual record on cards within the case or cove-r.It will be seen that I have thus provided means for a record forscholars attending a class or schoolby Sundays, the same being adaptedfor use year after year, also that a complete years attendance may beobtained by the blanks, since the record is grouped into months andSundays, all appearing around the pupils name.

The use of numbers l to 5 around or in conjunction with the names of themonths instead of the actual dates of the Sundays of each month will beseen to be of special advantage, so that my register has in this respecta marked superiority over others of its class. The leaves being' alsomade of material which permits pencil-marks to be erased therefrom, therecord may be used over and over again, while the adaptation of theleaves to be folded within the thin light cover A insures protection ofthe record and the leaves as well. I thus combine the highest utility,permanency, and compactness. In fact, the special grouping arrangementof the matter, taken in connection with the material of which theregister will be made, enables the latter to be produced in such reducedsize that it may be conveniently carried in the vest-pocket or in aladys purse.

The numbering of thel Sundays of each month from l up instead ofinserting the actual dates of the Sundays is of special importance inrespect to reduction of size or utilization of space, besides making therecord a permanent or continuous one adapted for any year. Thispermanent feature makes the renewal cards each year unnecessary, as wellas the writing of all the names on the roll because of the change ofdates in the Sundays of each year in a yearly system. Again, sincepencil-marks may be readily erased the names of pupils who for anyreason are dropped may be removed from the register purpose.

without the necessity of extracting or removing the cards upon whichtheir names appear. Again, owing to the limited time for making Sundayreports it is highly important to have all information accessibleand incompact form, and therefore the information as to the class is placed onthe exterior for reference without requiring the register to be openedor the cards to be manipulated for 'this Hence the secretary of theschool may make up the general report of the whole school from thevarious class-registers much more quickly than under the previoussystems.

A special feature of my invention is the production of the cover from asingle strip of flexible material, which may be cut out in oblongrectangular form and the strip then folded over or upon itself until theends approximate and the sides of the cover lie practically parallel tothe leaves which are to be pivoted between it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isi

l. The improved class-register comprising the oblong U-shape coverformed of Celluloid or other erasable material and bearing namesindicating class, department, and teacher, also a series of Sundays, andheadings of spaces for scholars, and a record of their attendance inclass, and a series of leaves formed of semirigid material having aspace for reception of the name and address of a particular pupil, andtwelve spaces which are suitably divided and indicated by the names ofthe twelve months of the year, also numerals from l to 5, grouped aroundthe name of each month and indicating the Sundays that may occur in suchmonth, substantially as described.

2. The improved class-register comprising a U-shape cover having spaceswith headings for indicating class-number, department, and teacher, alsospaces with headings indicating a series of Sundays, and headings forspaces for scholars enrolled, new scholars, scholars present, Sac., anda series of thin but semirigid leaves which are pivoted between the endsof the cover and each provided with a space for the name of a pupil, andtwelve spaces distinguished by the names of the months of a year, thenumerals l to 5 representing the Sundays being grouped around theseveral names of the months in the said spaces, substantially asdescribed.

JULIUS SIDNEY PRICE.

Witnesses:

ANDREW MITCHELL, J. S. OWEN.

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